Seems like your place of employment have a bunch of cultural and work process issues to sort out, to be honest.
The diary entries are supposed to replace other forms of communication - not be an addition.
My place of work strive for autonomous teams within specific business domains. You describe yourself as kind of a bottleneck, as things are expected from you in various projects, via email no less.
We’re facing completely different work environments, and as such you see a daily or weekly log as an additional burden. I see it as replacing tones of emails and meetings.
Again - it’s not required here, but as people have noticed the use and asynchronous discussions arising from these log entries, it’s taken a hold.
I do them myself as a manager, as my team deserves to know what I’m up to.
> Seems like your place of employment have a bunch of cultural and work process issues to sort out, to be honest.
The place and direct team not - the corporate mothership probably. It would be easy if I could at least filter out (internal) spam via sender addresses, but the sender address is a central one for ham as well as spam.
> You describe yourself as kind of a bottleneck, as things are expected from you in various projects, via email no less.
I am in part a bottle neck - in part just the consultant that is being onboarded into projects for specific questions, but as the probability is high that in the future there will be additional requests in my specific domains I am not rolled off these projects and therefore receive all client/project based "global" communication - even if my contribution is one hour every half a year.
So yeah. This is an interesting way of putting strain on my inbox.
> I see it as replacing tones of emails and meetings.
I would love this. Would probably not work with my specific job - even if it could work for a lot of people in the place I work at.
Being a function across different teams makes this unpractical for me - but not for others.
Interesting read - I love questioning “the process” and drilling down in ways of working.
I am, almost an involuntary, manager of 6 different dev teams, and I often say that my aim to reduce the “management” part of my job to a shared duties whiteboard.
Having this as an utopian goal I really strive to remove anything that will hinder team autonomy.
Transparency, communication and ownership is crucial to this mission. Always team, never individuals!
The diary entries are supposed to replace other forms of communication - not be an addition.
My place of work strive for autonomous teams within specific business domains. You describe yourself as kind of a bottleneck, as things are expected from you in various projects, via email no less.
We’re facing completely different work environments, and as such you see a daily or weekly log as an additional burden. I see it as replacing tones of emails and meetings.
Again - it’s not required here, but as people have noticed the use and asynchronous discussions arising from these log entries, it’s taken a hold. I do them myself as a manager, as my team deserves to know what I’m up to.